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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 836
DEFAMATION; LIBEL; THREATENING LETTERS AND SIMILAR OFFENSES
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F.S. 836.09
836.09 Communicating libelous matter to newspapers; penalty.If any person shall state, deliver, or transmit by any means whatever, to the manager, editor, publisher or reporter of any newspaper or periodical for publication therein any false and libelous statement concerning any person, then and there known by such person to be false or libelous, and thereby secure the publication of the same he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.s. 1, ch. 5142, 1903; GS 3259; RGS 5090; CGL 7192; s. 3, ch. 16070, 1933; CGL 1936 Supp. 7064(3); s. 994, ch. 71-136; s. 1309, ch. 97-102.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 836.09
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S836.09 - CRIMES AGAINST PERSON - FALSE LIBELOUS STMENT RE PERSON TO NEWSPAPER - M: S



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Cases from cite.case.law:

STANLEY TOOLS, A v. MADISON MILLS, INC., 109 F. Supp. 2d 500 (E.D. La. 2000)

. . . on diversity, the jury rendered judgment in favor of Hyde and against Stanley in the amount of $94,-836.09 . . .